13 Pieces arraged for 2 Cellos and Piano-** PROMOTIONAL LAUNCH PRICE FOR 2014 **13 pieces arranged for 2 cellos and piano by Julian Lloyd Webber. Good original music for two cellos is quite rare to find and over the years arrangements have greatly enriched the classical repertoire. In these pieces internationally celebrated cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has taken music from Purcell to Rachmaninov-much of it originally written for two voices-and adapted it to the medium of two cellos and accompanying piano. These unique arrangements which he performs with his wife Jiaxin Lloyd Webber on a Naxos CD (see back cover for details) and on tour allows their cello voices to blend together as they exploremusic of lyricism quiet melancholy and tuneful energy.

Op 102-Although Schumann had learnt the cello for a while in his youth he only began to compose for this instrument in later life. Apart from the cello concerto only his Five Pieces op. 102 have survived as original works for thecello. Clara was delighted with them: 'These are pieces in folk style with such a freshness and originality that I was enchanted'. The 'Neue Zeitschrift für Musik' wrote: 'These pieces are less apt for a virtuoso player than awell versed one who can speak on his instrument with tone and meaning.' This edition in the best Urtext quality is particularly to be recommended for teaching purposes and for making music at home.

Learn to play traditional Irish melodies on the cello. The Irish Cello Book covers traditional articulations concepts and practices of Irish music many traditionally for fiddle but here adapted to thecello. It includes technical lessons and a tune book of over 100 traditional Irish melodies. The demonstration and play-along tracks features a traditional Irish ensemble. You will learn to play Irish melodies usingtraditional articulations and performance nuances such as cuts pats rolls and slurs. You'll also learn to recognize distinguishing features of song forms adapt melodies to the cell play in a traditional Irish ensemble andmuch more.

Bill Bay: Fun With The Cello is a collection of 47 big-note easy level one solos on folk favourites designed to build technique range and endurance while maintaining student interest.Fun to play andserves ideally as a supplement to any method. All of the solos in this text may be played together in ensemble with the Fun with Violin Fun with Viola and Fun with Bass books.Bill Bay: Fun With The Celloincludes many favourite tunes Battle Hymn of the Republic Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home Blue Bells of Scotland Cockles and Mussels Down by the Riverside Erie Canal and many more.

Cello & Piano book I and book II (Z14637) contain a selection from 200 years of music. Eight Baroque sonatas are included apart from the famous D minor one by Corelli there are some that are appearing in a modern edition for the first time in 300 years. In addition to cyclical works (Haydn: Sonatina Mozart: Divertimento Vivaldi: Concerto) and sets of variations (Beethoven Tartini) there are many shorter pieces as well not only the famous minuets by Boccherini Mozart and Beethoven but also works published for the first time here. Virtuoso pieces are represented by Goltermann’s Etude-caprice and Jenkinson's Dance of the sylphids thelighter kind include Joplin’s Ragtime. This colourful ample selection provides a good basis for a music-lover's library. Book I Contents: 1. Corelli Arcangelo: Sonate Op. 5 No.8 2. Scarlatti Domenico: Sonata 3. Jacchini G. M.: Sonata 4. Vivaldi Antonio: Concerto RV 411 5. Telemann Georg Philipp: Sonata aus ''Der getreue Musikmeister'' 6. Bach Johann Sebastian Marcello Alessandro: Adagio BWV 974 7. Haydn Joseph: Scherzando Hob. XI:70 8. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: Menuet KV 334 9. Cherubini Luigi: Ave Maria 10. Romberg Bernhard: Rondo Op. 38 No. 1 11. Beethoven Ludwig van: Menuet WoO 10 No. 212. Beethoven Ludwig van: Tema con variazioni Op. 105 No. 1 13. Rossini Gioacchino Antonio: Pour Album 14. Schubert Franz: Morgenständchen D 889 15. Schubert Franz: Grätzer Galopp D 925 16. Schumann Robert: Arabeske Op. 18 17. Bizet Georges: Agnus Dei 18. Tchaikovsky P. I.: Valse sentimentale Op. 51 No. 6 19. Dvo ák Antonín: Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7 20. Dvo ák Antonín: Gipsy Melody Op. 55 No. 4 21. Fauré Gabriel: Mandoline Op. 58 No. 4 22. Joplin Scott: The Strenuous

Instrumental Play-Along-Learn to play 15 favourites from the Great White Way with this exciting new collection of Broadway Hits for Cello from the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-along series.Features solo Cello arrangements of songs such as: Backwoods Barbie ? Breathe ? Expressing Yourself ? Find Your Grail ? Follow Your Heart ? Ireland ? Mama Who Bore Me ? and more! Includes CD accompaniment with backing tracks.

Through Windows of Thine Age was written in gratitude and deep admiration for the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme one of Sweden's most creative politicians. It swings between romanticism and the wild with the Swedish national anthem present in almost every bar.As an international soloist and chamber musician Mats Lidström has gained a reputation for performances of great insight and virtuosity. He has been a member of the Cello faculty at the Royal Academy of Music since 1993. Other works include Suite Tintin for Cello and Piano and Rigoletto Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra. His children's story The Stamp King also comes in the form of amelodrama with the narration accompanied by Cello and Piano. His transcriptions for Cello are numerous. They include music from Bach to Cole Porter. Mats Lidström has recorded for Hyperion BIS EMI and Deutsche Grammophon.

Stuff All the Pros Know and Use-Ready to take your Cello playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that cellists of all levels can benefit from spanning classical to rock music and everything in between. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying demo audio tracks provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: bowing techniques non-classical playing electric cellos accessories gig tips practicing recording and much more.

This set includes score and four parts. Please note that these pieces may be played by more than four cellos if desired. To facilitate this each cello part is also available separately. Three Spanish Pieces was originally published in 1977 by Oxford University Press. Duration: c.7-8 minutes.

Beginning level. Book 3 in the Beginner Cello Theory for Children series is an engaging resource that allows students to develop a deeper understanding of important theory concepts. Key signatures enharmonic diatonic andchromatic semitones whole tones major scales musical terms and symbols and how to write music are all covered in this workbook. Unique to this book are detailed fill-in-the-blank diagrams of each major scale played on thecello. These diagrams allow students to visualize their scale and its theoretical structure in an easy-to-understand format. With this book there will be no complaints about theory homework.

CELLOWISE is an exciting new collection of arrangements from the popular classics. The standard is from Grade 3 upwards and included are Bach Badinerie Handel Sarabande Haydn Gipsy Rondo Gossec Gavotte and Tambourin Brahms Hungarian Dance and other favourites with attached CD of top quality performances making a pleasant and varied recital programme both to listen to and of course to play. Cellowise is featured on the 2014 Bauhinia Cup String Competition in Hong Kong and is on the current syllabuses of Trinity College London the Musik-PrüfungsKommission in Vienna and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin 2015-2018.FOOTNOTE TO CONTENTSOriginally a folk-dance from Medieval Spain the Sarabande became the spiritual centre-point of the 18th. Century dance suite and well-known to cellists through the Bach Suites.The Badinerie is a musical haiku stunning in its precision and economy of means and like a poem condenses much meaning and expression into few words.Sir Yehudi Menuhin once called the 'Erbarme Dich' solo the most beautiful piece of music ever written for the violin. This poignant duet for voice and obligato is about remorse betrayal and the universal theme of suffering. It is one of the centre-pieces of the St. Matthew Passion and is sung after Peter has denied Christ betraying him to the authorities and to his Crucifixion.Gavotte and Tambourin. These two Dances reflect the political opposites of the French Revolution - one a popular dance for partying and celebration the other more courtly and considered a favourite of Marie Antoinette.Rondo all'Ongarese and Hungarian Dance.Hungarian Folk music is fiery and impassioned with virtuoso techniques of embellishment and improvisation. Haydn and Brahms incorporated these elements into Classical forms.Like other Romantic and early-Romantic composers (Mendelssohn and Schubert) Brahms was attracted to Scotland as a wild and beautiful country of myth and

If Bach Was A Cellist-The purpose of the series if Bach was a cellist is to live the fantasy that everything Bach wrote he wrote for the cello.The concerto in D minor (BWV 1043) for two violins string orchestra and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of his most loved works. Indeed the slow movement may be one of the most popular and loved pieces in the instrumental literature. Traditionally it is believed to have been written in Köthen where he held the position of 'fürstlischer Kapellmeister' from 1717-1723 a town that saw the birth of the Brandenburg concertos and the solo works for violin and cello. The Dorian church mode (the absent Bflat in the key of Dminor) would also speak for the younger Bach. Recent research however has shown that the orchestral parts carefully written out by Bach himself and found among the papers of his son Carl Philip Emanuel date from around 1730. The sophistication of the composition also speaks for a later date than Köthen. The original score has been lost.Always in need of concert material for his 'Collegium Musicus' in Leipzig Bach made a version of the present concerto for two harpsichords (BWV 1062). The original key was transposed to C minor so that the top note would not exceed a D but remain within the range of a standard harpsichord. Another C minor concerto (BWV 1060) for two harpsi-chords often heard in an arrangement from the 1920's for violin and oboe by Max Schneider and Max Seiffert speaks for two concertos in D minor for two violins by Bach.When arranging an orchestral score for the pianoforte one has to remember that a double-bass sounds an octave lower than notated. This is a welcomed fact when dealing with two instruments that play the original solo parts an octave down. At the same time for a transcription of this kind the ambition must be to avoid the cello soloists playing in octaves with the violin tutti parts - which is what would happen were they to share the same material. This ambition made a piano reduction

and 10 Grand Etudes of Moderate Difficulty Op. 76-These two new editions (BA 6978 BA 6979) of David Popper’s cello studies are the first modern publications of these standard compositions. The Austrian born Popper composed these studies during his tenure at the Royal Conservatory in Budapest in the late 1890s and they were first published between 1901-05 .The 40 etudes found in op. 73 focus on a wide range of techniques found in the major works in the cello literature. The 15 easy etudes are designed for the first years of lessons which lead to the 10 grand etudes which in turn lead to the op. 73 etudes.Martin Rummel’s editions offer new bowings and fingerings to reflect modern playing.The 40 Etudes op. 73 also includes a German / English brochure containing technical tips and information by Rummel as well as references to the cello literature where the individual techniques are found.- First modern edition of these standard studies- With bowings and fingerings for today's cellists- Additional brochure to the 40 etudes with playing tips and references to where the techniques are found in the standard cello literature

Renata Bratt's The Fiddling Cellist is a comprehensive resource designed to prepare intermediate and advanced Cello students to play fiddle music. Eighteen fiddle tunes with chords in stylesfound in typical fiddle jam sessions - Celtic Old Time and Bluegrass. Each tune arranged for two or three Cellos and accompanied by short studies teaching idiomatic bass lines and back-up harmony as well as improvisationalsoloing over the chord changes. The companion audio download available online includes all examples with Guitar accompaniment.